A review on the role of endozoochory in seed germination

Seed Dispersal: Theory and its Application in a Changing World

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 78-103

  Traveset, Anna ^a   Robertson, Alastair W ^b   Rodríguez Pérez, Javier ^a  

^a INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

^b MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

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